Permission to Love with Jerry Henderson

Nov 11 2024 99 ep. 25 mins 13
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"Your relationship with yourself determines every other relationship in your life."

When we create a healthy relationship with ourselves, everything in our lives begins to transform.

Join us each week as we discuss topics such as overcoming shame, letting go of limiting beliefs, dealing with imposter syndrome, finding healthy motivators for achievement, transforming trauma, and learning how to practice self-love and self-acceptance. 

The Permission to Love Podcast is dedicated to helping people have healthier relationships with themselves and find the permission to fully love and accept themselves. 

About Jerry,

“When I realized I was the source of my own suffering, I realized I could also be the source of my own healing.”

Jerry is a Master Certified Transformational Mindset Coach, author, speaker, and host of The Permission to Love Podcast. 

He works with high-achievers to help them create a happier, healthier, and more sustainable life grounded in self-acceptance and self-compassion.  

Jerry has helped thousands of people have a healthier relationship with themselves and uncover the limiting beliefs keeping them from the life they so deeply desire and deserve. 

He uses a combination of transformational mindset coaching, positive psychology, trauma-informed approaches, IFS, and NLP to remove limiting beliefs and connect with their authentic selves. 

Jerry has an undergraduate degree in Political Science, an MBA in global business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and is currently completing his Master's degree in Psychology at Harvard University. 

Before becoming a Transformational Coach, Jerry spent most of his career in Philanthropy, raising over $1 billion USD for not-for-profits. He is a survivor of childhood trauma and now helps individuals learn how to create the lives they want from a place of healthy motivators and remaining mentally, emotionally, physically, relationally, and spiritually healthy. 

New episodes of The Permission to Love Podcast come out every Monday.

To learn more about Jerry, find additional resources, or submit a topic or question, check out: www.jerryhenderson.org

You can also connect with Jerry on Instagram: @jerryahenderson

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